#to be clear i am in fact a muscian and have a greater-than-basic understanding of the genre and the artform | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marlenacantswim · 8 months ago

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guy very into musical theatre who mistakingly thinks they're connecting with me over a shared interest: yeah, weber is foundational and all, but i've always felt more of a connection with what starkid's got going on, y'know?

me, who's only ever listened to tracks from the musical episode of Psych: uhhhhhhhhh... hello my name is shawn spencer? this is my partner, lil' wayne? the evidence is underwhelming? but my intuition is insane?

#to be clear i am in fact a muscian and have a greater-than-basic understanding of the genre and the artform #in fact half the reason i'm so obsessed with the psych musical is bc of all the ways it utilizes the actual genre tropes of musicals #to make itself an effective and genuine article of the medium #but outside of the theory uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry i know nothing i am but a wee babe #honestly the orchestration of the tracks is what i keep finding myself impressed by #it's so varied and diverse both in harmonic structure/progression and actual instrumentation #one thing i especially love is how the piece where shawn spells out the crime combines a ton of motifs from earlier tracks #into one unified piece of music #which directly mirrors how these breakdowns narratively combine all the facts the audience has been shown throughout the episode #psych #psych the musical #running my mouth

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